is there a quicker way to do this...

I opened up an assembly containing 50+ parts and most of them are invisible.
I know the remedy to the problem is to open each individual part into its
own separate window and do a rebuild, but is there a way to apply the
rebuild command to all of the parts in the assembly at the same time?

 

Open the assembly and do a CTRL+Q on the assembly. Its a forced rebuild
that will rebuild all models in the assembly.

mrcswp

 

by the time I read your suggestion I already fixed the problem by opening up
each individual model that make up the assembly and rebuilding each one, and
saved the rebuilt parts just in case. I then re-opened the assembly to make
sure that I solved the problem, it did. Then saved the assembly. Then I ran
ecosqueeze to shrink the file sizes. I've discovered that doing this caused
the parts in the assembly to disappear again. So now I know that ecosqueeze
was the cause of the disappearing parts, because when I opened up the
assembly, the problem re-appeared, so I tried your tip of pressing ctrl+Q,
but it didn't work. I was thinking that the reason that it didn't work was
because there is one sub-assembly, so I opened up the sub-assembly in a
separate window and tried the ctrl-q command on it, it still didn't rebuild
the sub-assembly. Am I doing something wrong? I'm going to see if I can play
around with the ecosqueeze settings so that I can prevent this from
happening again.

 

I kindof thought that the CTRL-Q wouldn't recurse every part, though I
wasn't quite sure.

I seem to recall mention here of an absolute assembly rebuild macro but I
haven't searched for it. Maybe you could google it and see if anything
comes up. A macro shouldn't be all that hard.....Oh wait here I wrote one
modified some code from solidworks website. Seemed to rebuild my assembly,
but I don't know if it will resolve your problem Paste the code in an empty
macro.

Dim swapp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim assy As SldWorks.AssemblyDoc

Sub test()
Dim firstComp As Component2
Dim config As Configuration
Dim m As ModelDoc2
Set swapp = Application.SldWorks
Set assy = swapp.ActiveDoc
Set config = assy.GetActiveConfiguration
Set firstComp = config.GetRootComponent

TraverseComponent firstComp, 0

End Sub


Sub TraverseComponent _
( _
swComp As SldWorks.Component2, _
nLevel As Long _
)

Dim vChildComp As Variant

Dim swChildComp As SldWorks.Component2

Dim swCompConfig As SldWorks.Configuration

Dim sPadStr As String

Dim i As Long

Dim SplitStr As Variant
Dim ThisDocument As ModelDoc2


For i = 0 To nLevel - 1

sPadStr = sPadStr + " "

Next i



vChildComp = swComp.GetChildren

For i = 0 To UBound(vChildComp)

Set swChildComp = vChildComp(i)

If swChildComp.GetSuppression = swComponentFullyResolved Then
Set ThisDocument = swChildComp.GetModelDoc

'swChildComp.Name2
'Debug.Print sPadStr & swChildComp.Name2 & " <" &
swChildComp.ReferencedConfiguration & ">"
TraverseComponent swChildComp, nLevel + 1
ThisDocument.Rebuild (swForceRebuildAll) 'swForceRebuildAll = 2
End If
Next i

End Sub


Corey

 

There wouldn't happen to be lightweight parts involved here, would there?

WT

 

The macro will skip them so make sure everything is fully resolved first.
Or edit to handle them.

Corey

 

I tried to make a new macro by clicking tools>macro>new. I then gave the new
macro the name of super rebuild.swp, witch then opened up the window witch
allowed me to paste the code that you provided. Before I pasted the code
though I noticed that the window were I would past the code, already had the
words "Dim swApp As Object
Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
End Sub" I over-wrote those commands with your code, doing so resulted in
solidworks informing me that there was a syntax error in the code. It didn't
like the line of code found near the end of the macro,
"swChildComp.ReferencedConfiguration & ">". I don't know anything about vba
or programming methods in solidworks, so I wouldn't know were to begin on
how to fix the error, can you help please.

 

nope the parts aren't lightweight. that's the 1st thing that occurred to me
too., but no such luck, the cause was an ecosqueeze setting called "remove
parasolid" witch for some reason is the default setting, witch means that
every time I use ecosqueeze I have to remember to un-select that option.

 

I think it may have wrapped from the line before you can delete it.

 

I've deleted the line of code saying "swChildComp.ReferencedConfiguration &
">", as you suggested. As a result solidworks no longer cries syntax
errors., but the macro doesn't effect the assembly in any way. In fact I had
to make sure that I ran the macro, so I did it twice. The macro still didn't
do anything to the assembly. No progress bar or something to signify that sw
was thinking.

 

Could you e-mail me the version of ecosqueeze you are using. Please zip and
mask the file
Ecosqueeze.zi_ because our firewall won't let me download it and we can't
accept zips or exes through our e-mail so we have to cheat the system.

Corey



Remove any eroneous info to reply by e-mail

 

Joe:

You need to be really careful about that "remove parasolid" option.
If you have a file with an imported solid I've heard it will delete it
and you'll have to recreate the part.

I suggest you only use ecosqueeze when you're going to be sending
files or archiving. Otherwise, it just takes a bunch of time and
they'll inflate again as soon as you open them.

Todd

 

Something isn't right here. "Remove Parasolid" is not the default for
EcoSqueeze, in fact the program puts up a warning when you check it. You
should only have to uncheck it once. It should stay unchecked the next time
you run it.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

I tried to send it to address without the
cErooneOus, but it bounced back, even though I attatched the program in the
form requested, "ecosqueeze 3.12.1601._ip". Here's the link to where I got
the program: http://www.ecocom.com/eng/index00.htm

 

you need the "c" in the front of the address I can't download it because of
our fire wall I tried yesterday.

Corey

 

I haven't tried this, but there is a setting called "Verification on
rebuild" in options. You can enable it and do the CTRL-Q.

Just be sure and turn it off if you don't need it, since it greatly
increases rebuild time.

Mike Wilson